Book contents
- Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Wales and the Imperial Gaze, 1726–1800
- Chapter 2 Ancient Britons and Ancient Britains
- Chapter 3 The Colonial Heartland
- Chapter 4 The Other Within
- Chapter 5 “A Perfect Potosi”
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Conclusion
Wordsworth and Wales
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2025
Book contents
- Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Wales and the Imperial Gaze, 1726–1800
- Chapter 2 Ancient Britons and Ancient Britains
- Chapter 3 The Colonial Heartland
- Chapter 4 The Other Within
- Chapter 5 “A Perfect Potosi”
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Summary
The preceding chapters recovered the submerged dimensions of an obsession with Wales and Welshness that shaped British imperial culture over the course of the eighteenth century and the Romantic period. This obsession was not limited to writing from Wales: It also animated a great deal of English, Scottish, and Irish literature that has since been canonized. This book has examined discourses in which the relationship of the Principality and its inhabitants to Britain’s broader geopolitical projects and racial-ethnic identity was mooted explicitly, and also explored how novelists and poets used Wales as a figural resource to advance a wide variety of theories about how the freshly hegemonic British Empire ought to conceive of and conduct itself.
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